the the tales and confusion i called the port enough kind of stone as the us pulled out its remaining star unverified video show crowds of people running across the field and a desperate bed to get out of the country by clinging on to american planes. and the southern people have reportedly been killed in the unrest. un security council holds in emergency session restaurant is dawn with representatives voicing concern of a human rights violations in the country. the parliament have already started house to house searches in some neighborhoods registering names. looking for people in their target list, you as president is expected to give his fast speech off to the heavy blow to

washington. his reputation will be following a course. what he has to say. the 247 live a from the russian capital. this is audience nation where your tuning and from a very warm welcome to the program. good to have your company well, like we have been doing will day. we're continuing our special coverage of dramatic events that have been unfolding enough to start over the last 24 hours. the hard to miss the taliban has now declared an end to the war in the country. i saw fits, fight has effectively captured every major city, including the capital. cobble means that often nearly 20 years, the entire nation is now back under control of the militant group. meanwhile, us to carry bite and is poise to break his silence on the chaos. and i've got a son. in fact, i believe he is right now. the u. s. president is by the way,

from this weekend wait, find me commenting on what's happened and i've gone on. let's listen and moving quickly, the execute the plans we had put in place to respond to every constituency, including and contingency including a rapid collapse receive. now i'll speak more in a moment about the specific steps we're taking. what i want to remind everyone how we got here and what america's interests are in afghanistan. we want to have gans dana was 20 years ago with clear goals. get those who attacked us on september 11th, 2001. and make sure our car could not use f ganeth stand as a base from which to attack us again. we did that. we serv really degraded archived in afghanistan. we never gave up the hunt for osama milan and we got him. that was a decade ago. our mission, afghanistan was never supposed to been nation building. it was never supposed to be

created a unified, centralized democracy or only my last interest. and again, stan remains today. what has always been preventing a terrorist attack on american homeland? i've argued for many years that our mission should be narrowly focused on counter terrorism, not counter insurgency or nation building. that's why oppose the search when it was proposed in 2009 when i was vice president. and that's why i'm president. i'm adamant we focus on the threats we face to day in 2021. not yesterday's threats. today, the terrorist threat as metastasize well beyond afghanistan. l ship bob in somalia are cried in the raven peninsula on, looser in syria, isis attempting to create a killer fight in syria and iraq and establishing affiliates in multiple countries

in africa and asia. these threats warn our attention and our resources. we conduct effective counterterrorism missions against terrorist groups and multiple countries where we don't have permanent military presence if necessary will do the same. and if can stand, we've develop counterterrorism over the rise of capability that will allow us to keep our eyes firmly fixed on the direct threats united states in the region. and act quickly and decisively if needed. well, i came in office, i inherited a deal. the president trump negotiated with italy mon under his agreement. us forces in the out of can stand by may 1 2021. just a little over 3 months after i took office. us forces that already drawn down

during the trump administration from roughly 15500 american forces to 2500 troops in country. and natalia bon was at its strongest militarily since 2001 the choice i had to make as your president was easy to follow through on that agreement or be prepared to go back to fighting a tall amman in the middle of the spring fighting season would have been no cease fire after may 1. there is no agreement protecting our forces. after may 1, there was no status quo of stability without american casualties. after may 1, there was only a call reality of either following through the agreement to withdraw our forces or escalating the conflict and sending thousands more americans use back into combat

enough. gaston, lurching into the 3rd decade of conflict. i stand squarely behind my decision. after 20 years, i've learned the hardware that there was never a good time to withdraw us forces. that's why we're still there. we were clear eyed about the risk. we planned for every contingency, but i always promised the american people, but i'll be straight with you. the truth is, this did on fall more quickly than we had anticipated. so what's happened of ghana, stan political leaders gave up and fled the country. the afghan military collapsed sometime without trying to fight. if anything, the developers of the past week reinforce that any

u. s. military involvement of gas and now was the right decision. americans cannot and should not be friday, you know, war and dine in a war that afghan forces are not willing to fight for themselves. we spent over a trillion dollars. we trained and equipped an afghan military force, some 300000 strong, incredibly well equipped, a force larger in size and the militaries of many of our nato allies. we gave them every tool they could need. we paid their salaries provided for the maintenance of air force, something the tale bon doesn't have tale. bon does not have an air force. we provide a close air support. we gave them every chance determined our own future. we

could not provide them. was the will to fight for that future. some very brave and capable afghans, special forces, units, and soldiers of afghanistan is unable to mount any real resistance of the tale bond . now, there is no chance that one year, one more year, 5 more years or 20 more years, the us military boots in the ground would have made any difference. hazard, i believe, to my core is wrong to order american troops to step up and afghan stands own armed forces would not political leaders of afghanistan were unable to come together for the good of their people unable to negotiate for the future of their country. when the chips were down, they would never have done so while us troops remained that can stand,

bearing the brunt of the fighting for them. sin our true strategic competitors. china and russia would love nothing more than the united states to continue to funnel billions of dollars and resources and attention in the stabilized nap can stand indefinitely. when i host a president, connie and chairman of dylan at the white house in june. and again, when i spoke by phone to donnie in july, we had very frank conversations we talked about who are gonna stand, should prepared to fight their civil wars. after the u. s. military departed to clean up the corruption in government. so the government could function for the afghan people. we talked extensively about the need for afghan leaders to unite politically. they fail to do any of that. i also urge them to engage in diplomacy, to seek a political settlement with

a tolerable. this advice was flatly refused. mister ghani, insisted the afghan forces would flights and obviously was wrong. so i am left again to ask of those who argue that we should stay. how many more generations, america's daughters and sons, would you have me send to fight afghans? afghanistan's civil war when afghan through for mam, how many more alliance miracle life is it worth? how many endless rows of headstones in arlington, national cemetery? i'm clear on my answer. i will not repeat the mistakes we've made in the past. mistake of staying and fighting indefinitely in a conflict. it is not in the national interest of the united states of dublin down

on a civil war in a foreign country of attempting to remake a country through the endless military deployments of us forces. those are the mistakes we cannot continue to repeat because we have significant, vital interest in the world that we cannot afford to ignore. i also want to acknowledge how painful this is to so many of us. the cesar scene in afghanistan, their gut wrenching, particularly for veterans, our diplomats humanitarian workers for anyone who has spent time on the ground working to support the afghan people. for those who lost loved ones in the canister . and from eric is a fight and served in the country serve our country in against this is deeply, deeply personal. it is for me as well. i've worked in these issues as long as

anyone i've been throughout afghanistan during this war or the war was going on from cub bold to kandahar to the crew, nor valley. i've travelled there in 4 different occasions. i met with the people. i spoken to the leaders, i spent time with our troops and i came to understand firsthand what was it was not possible. i can stand soon our focus focused on what is possible. we will continue to support the afghan people. we will lead with our diplomacy or international influence. enter your monetary and aid will continue to push for regional diplomacy and engagement to prevent violence. and instability will continue to speak out for the basic rights of the afghan people of women and girls . just as we speak out all over the world, i've been clear,

human rights must be the center of our foreign policy, not the periphery. but the way to do it is not through endless military deployments . so our diplomacy, or economic tools and rally in the world to join us. let me lay out the current mission and i can steer. i was asked to authorize and i did. $6000.00 us troops to deploy have can stand for the purpose of assisting the departure of us and allied civilian personnel from canada and to evacuate our african allies and vulnerable atkins to safety outside of afghans. our troops working to secure the airfield and ensure continued operation of both civilian and military flights. we're taking over our traffic control. we have safely shut down our embassy and transferred our diplomats. our to our

diplomatic presence is now consolidated at the airport as well. over the coming days, we intended transport out thousands of american citizens, women living and working afghans. they will also continue to support the safe departure civilian personnel, the civilian personnel of our allies who are still serving the canister operation allies. refugee, which announced back in july as already moved. 2000 and afghans were eligible for special immigration visas and their families to the united states. in the coming days, u. s. military will provide assistance to move to move more s i v eligible afghans and their families out of their gans were also expanding refugee access to cover other vulnerable afghans who worked for embassy u. s. non government agencies or

u. s. non governmental organizations and afghans who otherwise are a great risk in u. s. news agencies. i know there are concerns about why we did not begin evacuating, atkins civilians sooner. part of the answer is some of the afghans did not want to leave earlier. still hopeful for their country important because the afghan government and his supporters discouraged us some organizing a mass exodus to avoid triggering, as they said, a crisis of confidence american troops are performing this mission as professionally and as effectively as they always do. but it is not without risks . as we carry out this departure, we have made it clear to the tale mind. if they attack our personnel or disrupt her operation, the u. s. presence will be swift,

and the response will be swift and forceful. will defend our people with devastating force if necessary. our current military mission, we shorten time, limit is what scope and focused in its objectives, get our people and our allies as safely as quickly as possible. and once we have completed this mission, we will conclude our military withdrawal will and america as long as war after 20 long years of bloodshed, events for c now are sadly proof that no man of military force whatever deliver a stable united, secure afghanistan, as known in history as the graveyard of empires. what's happening now could just as easily happen 5 years ago, or 15 years in the future. yes,

to be honest. our mission and in genesis taking many missteps, made many missteps over the past 2 decades. i'm now the 4th american president to preside over worn afghans did 2 democrats and 2 republicans. i will not pass this responsibly on responsible nano, 5th president. i will not mislead the american people by claiming just a little more time and i can't stand will make all the difference. nor will i shrink from my share of responsibility for what we are to day and how we must move forward from here. i am president of the united states of america, and the buck stops with me. i'm deeply saddened by the facts we now face when i do not regret my decision to end america's war fighting afghans and

maintain a laser focused on our counterterrorism mission there and other parts of the world mission to degrade the terrorist threat about kind in afghanistan and kilo summer been lot was a success or decades long effort to overcome centuries of history and permanently change and remake. afghanistan was not, and i wrote and believed it never could be. i cannot and will not ask our troops to fight on endlessly another in another countries civil war taking casualties, suffering, life shattering injuries, leaving families broken by grief and loss. this is not in our national security interest. it is not with the american people. one, it is not what our troops who have sacrificed so much over the past 2 decades deserve. i made a commitment to american people. when i ran for president,

and i bring america's military involvement can stand to an end. while it's been hard and messy, and yes, far from perfect. i've honored that commitment. more importantly, i made a commitment to the brave men and women who serve this nation, that i wasn't going to ask them to continue to risk their lives in the military accident should have ended long ago. our leaders did that in vietnam and i got, here's a young man, i will not do it in afghanistan. i know my decision will be criticized, but i would rather take all that criticism and pass this decision onto another president of united states, yet another one, a 5th one because it's the right one. so right decision for our people, the right one for our brave service members risk their lives,

serving our nation as the right one for america. thank you. may god protect our troops, our diplomats and all brave americans serving in harms way. the that was us president joe biden speaking 6 days of silence. he got a lot of reproach before speaking out. and it seems that essentially he doesn't regret anything. and that the last 2 days that shocked the world. yes, he said unrivalled faster than he thought, but he said still live up to no regrets. i consider to be mission accomplish been large and taken out, i'll call you dealt with squashed. and he also said that he was dealt a bad card off to the trunk deal, but he dealt with the situation the fact that he could, but it wasn't a good situation to start with. that was also a slight reproach of the town. full says that perhaps they hadn't fought as hard as they should have, despite having had all the american support from washington. but of course he admitted that what's going on at the moment is painful and got ready to see. but he

said not to say the afghan people have been left behind, humanitarian aid will be sent. it's not q ation efforts to try and get people who collaborate to help to the with the u. s. poll says, trying to get them to safety, but that was joe biden. finally speaking out, he said, i'd rather take all the criticism in the world than send and not the generation of daughters and sons. he said to a world that was pointless. to start with what really the message was that he thought it was the right decision to make. well, i want to cross now with to talk to louis harrington next spot in terrorism. electra in middle east and politics that regents university london. welcome to the program. now i don't know if you managed to catch any of biden's speech. she did. well, i think i, i kind of gave the general gist of what he said. what do you think of, of what his was, why just now? i know it was great speech. why there was a really good speech by a good leader i'm putting, reflected, honestly on, you know,

indicating the current situation. and i think he was absolutely right. you know, the, you cannot, there was never going to be a military solution to our canister. and he's right that the, that the if the people are not willing to fight for their freedom, then you know, there's only so much that america could have done militarily, you know, and the fact that they could give it another year. i liked what he talked about when he said that, you know, we had to balance. we don't want to look as if we do the direction we needed to get . we would have lost confidence in the government at a time when it was crucial. so i think it was a reasonable assessment and he's actually right, keep the full president to reside over this, you know, at some state at some point something had to change. and i think that

he's right, that one trillion dollar investment, you know, 300000 troops, a ne, to bigger than some of the nato allies. but the wheel was not there. and you cannot do anything about 20 years. didn't change that another year. what's another year going to do another 5 years. what i want to ask you about that? well, i mean, i phrased it seemed to be a reproach of the afghan forces that almost they had been cowards to not stay and fight as to town upon pushed forward that the us had given them up sooner the every opportunity but still a party. they couldn't kind of take it through to the end. i mean, how can you sort of assess that statement? do you think it fast? no, no, no. i think it's very easy to be, you know, 6000 miles away and, and talk about cowardice. we talk about, you know, people, that's

a landlocked country. it would not, of, you know, seeing other seeing the way that the tide was going. it was the reality if you've lived there for 20 years and the taliban. if you can see the america, if you know, with all those military might, could not eradicate this. insurgency could not do it. you know, it doesn't leave you with a lot of confidence. and the reality is that these people think it's at some point the taliban are going to take over and they are going to be looking for the people who fought against them. so it's, i won't say that cowards, i say that they made a very rational decision, which was that they seem to more than a fight that they could win. unfortunately, and again, it's trying to apply western models to get to stand by them even said it in itself . but the 1st thing was good defeat of been laws and was absolutely spot on. that's

what we were that to do. the taliban. we're not responsible for $911.00. why we're going after them, you know, and by doing that, you know, the entire time spent in the, you know, issues the has not changed. all we've done is throw money more money and more. when you have to ask about it, you haven't, you haven't been able to change the situation on the ground. realistically. i wasn't want to ask you that was a point where you said that if the taliban steps and, and tries to stop and you've got to ation efforts, they will step in full fully and decisively do you anticipate that kind of situation? the taliban are incredibly patient. they've waited 20 years for this. i don't see that they are going to put the fighters in any harm when it is actually clear from by them. in a matter of weeks they will be 0 american times. why would you doesn't make any

strategic, there's no strategic value to go and change factor a bull when it's leaving the field. let it go and they will, there will be no tell about engagement with america. with the math. no way should they are patient. they will wait out, it's a matter of the way to use that wouldn't risk it. simplify today. that would be illogical. well, i appreciate you coming to craig, i'm afraid we're a bit tight on time and i want to talk to louis harrington. electra in middle eastern politics. very much well, very busy today from paris. now ortiz paula slayer, is going to join us. paula: good to have you on. i know that you've been obviously this, the topic that you've been involved in. look at the european angle. i want to ask you, what is the main point of concern for the french people for the front president on what's going on here? well, a short time ago, we heard from the french president in manuel crohn in

a televised trace to the nation. and very much what was anticipated is in fact what he said, and that was that he doesn't want a gunny son to become a sanctuary for terrorist yet again, of course, the hot potato for france and the rest of the european union is the issue of the migrant crisis, people here certainly do not want to see a repeat of the 2015 crisis that happened. you have a situation in france where us comes, make up the 2nd largest refugee population. and there is division amongst european countries in terms of what to do with those guns who've reached these shores, but don't actually have the correct paperwork in terms of being recognized as refugees. and such a long time ago, a letter was wishing to the european commission in which a number of countries stated that they have the right to the port of guns without the correct paperwork back to have guns done subsequent to that several countries backtracked. so you have this division with in europe in terms of what to do,

but the doesn't seem to be division in terms of the fact that the european union does not have the capacity to handle another major migrant crisis. taken. listen to what the french president has to say. no one was on t, c. p. we must anticipate and protect ourselves against major irregular my great re flows that would endanger those who use them and feed trafficking of all kinds. we will therefore take the initiative to build without delay, a robust, coordinated, and united response that will involve the fight against irregular flows in the city . now what we're witnessing is a change from the previous positive approach from the blocks major powers. when it comes to dealing with refugees and asylum seekers, the german chancellor, anglo merkel also talked to the floor and she was extremely bitter. she said that it was quite clear that countries had not managed to build

a country enough gunny stand with a democratic structure. she said that there was no connection between the african security forces and the local african population. and she also questioned whether or not they had achieved anything by intervening in the country. in this way, she said that they need to look at other ways of dealing with such situations. her conclusion, nato did not succeed in afghanistan. mustache, i'm belong to. now we're given that car to can no longer carry out attacks against the united states from again is done as they did on the 11th of september, 2001. but everything that has followed hasn't been a successful and hasn't been achieved in the way we had planned to. now you'll notice they that merkel use the reference of 911, which is actually a little bit silly because it was saudis who were involved in the 911 plains. and

at the same time the taliban is not the same as our kinder. but certainly here in france, the party at the moment is on evacuation as it is within other european countries. and on monday we did see the slides. sketching on the way with france, placing a power sheet, bringing home and evacuating both french citizens and africans who have been assisting the french government form and absolutely the implications of what's going on. often stretch far beyond of course, have kind of stones bored us. that was point to bring us the very latest french reaction from paris. and that is also done for this i'll, we will be back at the top with all the very latest breaking it down to you. so pop by them the.